Informix Virtual Appliance

Use this information to install, run, and administer the HCL Informix® Virtual Appliance.

This information is intended for the following users:

Database users
Database administrators
Database server administrators
Performance engineers
Programmers in the following categories
- Application developers
- DataBlade module developers
- Authors of user-defined routines

Welcome to the HCL Informix Virtual Appliance
HCL Informix Virtual Appliance Version 12.10
Installing and running the HCL Informix Virtual Appliance
This topic explains VMware Workstation, VMware Player, and VMware Fusion only; VMware Server and ESX are covered elsewhere.
Installing the HCL Informix Virtual Appliance in a VMware infrastructure environment
The HCL Informix Virtual Appliance is supplied in a format suitable for running in a VMware Infrastructure environment.
First steps
Configuring the HCL Informix Virtual Appliance
Use this information to configure the HCL Informix Virtual Appliance to work with your host operating system.
High-availability cluster
The HCL Informix Virtual Appliance editions that support Enterprise Replication (ER) and high availability clusters provide a demonstration that shows how to configure and use ER and high-availability cluster capabilities.
OpenAdmin Tool (OAT) for Informix
You can use the OpenAdmin Tool (OAT) graphical-user interface to administer Informix. How OAT is configured is dependent on the virtualization environment you are using.
Scripts
This section describes the scripts that are included with the HCL InformixInformix Virtual Appliance.
Using the Informix JDBC Driver and the JDBC Common Client
The section demonstrates how to use the JDBC driver to connect to an Informix instance.
Using PHP with Informix
This section demonstrates how to use PHP to access and interact with Informix.
Introduction to Data Studio
This tutorial shows how to use IBM® Data Studio to learn about the Java™ and Data perspectives. You can learn how to connect to a database and sample the contents of tables in the database.
Enhanced error message lookup using the basic text search (BTS) extension
This tutorial shows how to use the Basic Text Search (BTS) extension to create a searchable database of Informix error messages.
Using HCL Informix Spatial Data
The objective of this tutorial is to demonstrate how to use ESQL/C and the Client-side Java API to create and use geometry objects.
Using HCL Informix embeddability features
The objective of the tutorial is to show you one way of using the embeddability features of the Informix.